Whenever I change any system setting in Ubuntu 14.04 (namely brightness and some props in Synaptics), they never persist after rebooting. I have Ubuntu 14.04 alongside with Windows 8. How can I make ...

I've encountered a problem. After some time of using my ubuntu 14.04 + gnome shell i happend not to be able to open system settings. When I open it usually just nothing happens or system error occurs ...

This program doesn't appear in the "Default applications" > "Music" menu at "System settings" > "Details".
I know that is posible to manually set every audio format to open with it. But is there a way ...

I am starting to work with 2 displays on Ubuntu. One of them is rotateable, so I can use it easily in both landscape and portrait mode. But I world prefer to have ability to change orientation setting ...

The systems settings icon, i.e., the gear wheel in the screenshot here with yellow circle suddenly disappeared. I have no more information to offer because it just suddenly disappeared. How to restore ...

Recently I did a "clean" install of Ubuntu 14.10 and I had everything running fine, using my AMD Radeon HD 6630M as the default graphics card, without issue (I have one of those stupid dual-graphics ...

So, recently I upgraded to 14.10 and since then I experienced some problems but slowly I managed to solve most of them. I used Gnome for while but few days ago I changed back to Unity and today when I ...

I need to get to the sound settings and change the output to HDMI.
From the menu, bottom left, I can choose System Tools or Preferences but neither contain a link to sound settings, which apparently ...

I recently upgraded to 14.10 from 14.04 from the software center, 2 days later I changed my Desktop Background from Settings-Displays , I may have updated the system with minor 3 to 10 MB updates from ...

I have recently performed a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 14.04. I have 2 users setup to gain access to the system. The problem - i know it is not so much of a critical problem.. only aesthetic - is ...

I installed Pulseaudio 5 as I need to send sound to satellite Android speakers.
Any way after install: Pulse audio does not boot, System settings won't boot(from icon or the menu), sound icon missing ...

Using the command line, I want to mute the sound effects in Ubuntu 14.04.
The GUI way of doing so is going to System Settings (unity-control-center), then going to the Sound Effects tab:
The answer ...

I am reinstalling Ubuntu with a separate home partition. I have been told that when I do this all the data in the home partition will not be harmed(when I use manual partitioning of course) and that ...

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit in a VMWare VM. I suspended the VM for a weak and then resumed it. I noticed that the time/date was incorrect, likely due to the fact that it was still set to the time ...

I'd like to lock the screen when I move my mouse to the bottom-right corner.
Is there a compiz-configuration for that task?
I could not find anything in the compizconfig-settings-manager and system ...

It it has to do a disc check from being powered down 30 times like that.I have to do it that way cause it wont power down regularly and I'm running Linux ultimate edition x64 2.3. I know its out dated ...